Up early this morning. I was just looking at the blog, thinking about posting and looking at all of the pictures along the right hand side. Thinking about how much things have changed in our lives. Looking at the pictures of Madeline holding Tucker and feeling so happy that the two of them are beginning to really enjoy one another. I scrolled all the way down to the bottom of the page and saw Tucker's age ticker. "Tucker is 6 months old." I knew that. I said that to 5 people yesterday- "How old is he?" "He will be 6 months old tomorrow." But just now when I realized it- realized that TODAY he is 6 months old, it took my breath away. It has gone by so quickly.
So, we will go to Tucker's 6 month appointment next week but here is an update on a few things he is doing since last month...
He is sitting up well. He loves to play sitting up. He still falls over to one side but he catches himself and rolls. He is not crawling but he pulls those legs up underneath him FAST and "inchworms" all around the living room. I can put out all of the toys in the world for him but he will move right past them and go for the entertainment center to try and reach buttons or a shoe. We have moved him into the high chair. He does pretty well. He is still very impatient when he is hungry so most of the time I end up carrying him around on my hip while I prepare his food. That's another thing- he's a hip baby now. Food- so far he has had butternut squash, sweet potatoes, avocado, cauliflower, tried (and didn't like) carrots, bananas, along with his oatmeal and rice cereal. I am wondering when he can have yogurt. He rolls over very well, both directions, except in his bed. If he rolls onto his back in the middle of the night he just lays there making this funny sound- not really crying- just these lower pitched wails- until I come in and hold him for a minute or feed him and lay him back down. Most of the time, if I have followed a good sleep schedule throughout the day, he sleeps 11 or 12 hours through the night.
Now for the good stuff- he and Madeline love each other so much. She still gets a little jealous of the time I give to him but in terms of their interactions with one another things are great. She is so proud to tell everyone that he is her baby brother and she tells me at least 3 times a day how much she loves him and how cute he is. She always wants to "pet" him. She says, "Mommy can I pet him?" and rubs his head so gently and most of the time she will give him a little kiss too. If we are going somewhere she always wants to make sure we are taking Tucker too because "he is part of our family!" We have been spending time in the evenings in our hammock (thanks to Madeline) and the other night she wanted to get her baby brother so he could swing with us. He was sleeping but we assured her that the next night we would make sure that Tucker got to swing with us. He did and she loved it.
Yesterday we went to Woolly Hollow State Park. It was so nice. A fun afternoon. On the way home, both kids were a little tired and cranky and Madeline started repeating fun words like "poop" over and over again. I think she was retelling "The Night before Christmas" but substituting "poop" for the reindeer names. At one point I know she said "now DASH away DASH away DASH away POOP!" Every time she said poop Tucker giggled so hard. That thrilled her. She tried other things. She yelled every princess name and he giggled. She yelled nonsense and he giggled. I think she is realizing that he is a real little person who loves her very much. She loves his attention and is always surprised when he smiles at her or laughs. I got out her old toys for him. The good ones. We've moved on to the stuff that lights up and makes noise now. She gets down on the floor and plays with him. Well, she takes stuff away from him, but Tyler says that constitutes playing for a brother and sister. I'm thrilled.
Madeline is so funny. you never know what will come out of her mouth. A week or so ago we were struggling to get her to go to bed and she was doing her best to come up with anything to keep us in her room a little longer. On this night she kept stopping us every time we tried to walk out and she would say- NO WAIT! We would turn around and she would say -"just give me a minute. I need to take a deep breath. I have to espress something to you." I fell out laughing which made her mad and she went through the whole thing again. She never could "express" to us what she needed to because I kept laughing and she would get mad and start all over again. Oh my gosh...we finally had to just walk out. Last night she said that I needed to remember that when she came in my room in the middle of the night and asked to get in my bed that I needed to say okay. I told Tyler I wanted to get to sleep because I expected a visitor around 2:30. Sure enough, 2:30 am, Madeline is next to me asking to get in bed with us. It is rare that she does this so I did. She is also doing this thing...she'll ask for something and I will say no and then she will say, "Mommy, say, 'I want to do what Madeline says.'" So I say the required phrase and then she says, "Okay, then DO it." Then we have to negotiate. Pretty smart kid.
T Thomas is awake again for some reason. Just watched the sun rise. Madeline at 2:30 and Tucker awake at 5:30. Whew. This will be a long day. It has been nice to have the quiet time to write, though. I'm going to check on my 6 month old boy now. Maybe I will wake up Madeline for some potty humor to keep him happy.
So, we will go to Tucker's 6 month appointment next week but here is an update on a few things he is doing since last month...
He is sitting up well. He loves to play sitting up. He still falls over to one side but he catches himself and rolls. He is not crawling but he pulls those legs up underneath him FAST and "inchworms" all around the living room. I can put out all of the toys in the world for him but he will move right past them and go for the entertainment center to try and reach buttons or a shoe. We have moved him into the high chair. He does pretty well. He is still very impatient when he is hungry so most of the time I end up carrying him around on my hip while I prepare his food. That's another thing- he's a hip baby now. Food- so far he has had butternut squash, sweet potatoes, avocado, cauliflower, tried (and didn't like) carrots, bananas, along with his oatmeal and rice cereal. I am wondering when he can have yogurt. He rolls over very well, both directions, except in his bed. If he rolls onto his back in the middle of the night he just lays there making this funny sound- not really crying- just these lower pitched wails- until I come in and hold him for a minute or feed him and lay him back down. Most of the time, if I have followed a good sleep schedule throughout the day, he sleeps 11 or 12 hours through the night.
Now for the good stuff- he and Madeline love each other so much. She still gets a little jealous of the time I give to him but in terms of their interactions with one another things are great. She is so proud to tell everyone that he is her baby brother and she tells me at least 3 times a day how much she loves him and how cute he is. She always wants to "pet" him. She says, "Mommy can I pet him?" and rubs his head so gently and most of the time she will give him a little kiss too. If we are going somewhere she always wants to make sure we are taking Tucker too because "he is part of our family!" We have been spending time in the evenings in our hammock (thanks to Madeline) and the other night she wanted to get her baby brother so he could swing with us. He was sleeping but we assured her that the next night we would make sure that Tucker got to swing with us. He did and she loved it.
Yesterday we went to Woolly Hollow State Park. It was so nice. A fun afternoon. On the way home, both kids were a little tired and cranky and Madeline started repeating fun words like "poop" over and over again. I think she was retelling "The Night before Christmas" but substituting "poop" for the reindeer names. At one point I know she said "now DASH away DASH away DASH away POOP!" Every time she said poop Tucker giggled so hard. That thrilled her. She tried other things. She yelled every princess name and he giggled. She yelled nonsense and he giggled. I think she is realizing that he is a real little person who loves her very much. She loves his attention and is always surprised when he smiles at her or laughs. I got out her old toys for him. The good ones. We've moved on to the stuff that lights up and makes noise now. She gets down on the floor and plays with him. Well, she takes stuff away from him, but Tyler says that constitutes playing for a brother and sister. I'm thrilled.
Madeline is so funny. you never know what will come out of her mouth. A week or so ago we were struggling to get her to go to bed and she was doing her best to come up with anything to keep us in her room a little longer. On this night she kept stopping us every time we tried to walk out and she would say- NO WAIT! We would turn around and she would say -"just give me a minute. I need to take a deep breath. I have to espress something to you." I fell out laughing which made her mad and she went through the whole thing again. She never could "express" to us what she needed to because I kept laughing and she would get mad and start all over again. Oh my gosh...we finally had to just walk out. Last night she said that I needed to remember that when she came in my room in the middle of the night and asked to get in my bed that I needed to say okay. I told Tyler I wanted to get to sleep because I expected a visitor around 2:30. Sure enough, 2:30 am, Madeline is next to me asking to get in bed with us. It is rare that she does this so I did. She is also doing this thing...she'll ask for something and I will say no and then she will say, "Mommy, say, 'I want to do what Madeline says.'" So I say the required phrase and then she says, "Okay, then DO it." Then we have to negotiate. Pretty smart kid.
T Thomas is awake again for some reason. Just watched the sun rise. Madeline at 2:30 and Tucker awake at 5:30. Whew. This will be a long day. It has been nice to have the quiet time to write, though. I'm going to check on my 6 month old boy now. Maybe I will wake up Madeline for some potty humor to keep him happy.
happy 6 months sweet sweet baby boy, what a joy you are!!!
ReplyDeletei miss you allison- sorry i haven't contacted you. work is really hard for me right now and i come home so tired. happy, but tired :)